Raise your hand if you're sure President Mohammed Morsi's new Islamist-backed draft constitution, which is being put to a referendum, poses a grave threat to democracy in Egypt. These protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square are. less

Raise your hand if you're sure President Mohammed Morsi's new Islamist-backed draft constitution, which is being put to a referendum, poses a grave threat to democracy in Egypt. These protesters in Cairo's ... more

Another nonchalant pepper-spraying cop: In Manama, Bahrain, a police officer squirts a Shiite Muslim woman with the stinging liquid during an anti-government demonstration. Police also used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse dozens of anti-regime Shiite demonstrators marking the opposition's "Martyrs' Day." Martyrs' Day commemorates the deaths of regime opponents in clashes with security forces in the 1990s. less

Another nonchalant pepper-spraying cop: In Manama, Bahrain, a police officer squirts a Shiite Muslim woman with the stinging liquid during an anti-government demonstration. Police also used tear gas and stun ... more

The naked man on the wall: In the San Francisco, he'd probably be arrested for public nudity, but in Allahabad, India, it's perfectly all right for a nagu sadhu (naked Hindu holy man) to bless children.

The naked man on the wall: In the San Francisco, he'd probably be arrested for public nudity, but in Allahabad, India, it's perfectly all right for a nagu sadhu (naked Hindu holy man) to bless children.

Photo: Rajesh Kumar Singh, Associated Press

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Anybody want to see me use this as a tool? I'm in an evolving mood today: Assumbo accosts his public from inside his enclosure at the Darwineum Zoo in Rostock, Germany.

Anybody want to see me use this as a tool? I'm in an evolving mood today: Assumbo accosts his public from inside his enclosure at the Darwineum Zoo in Rostock, Germany.

Photo: Bernd Wuestneck, AFP/Getty Images

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Thousands of lights illuminate Casa di Babbo Natale (Santa's house) in Melegnano, Italy. Massimiliano Goglio, the owner, decorates it every year as a Christmas gift to the community.

Thousands of lights illuminate Casa di Babbo Natale (Santa's house) in Melegnano, Italy. Massimiliano Goglio, the owner, decorates it every year as a Christmas gift to the community.